Montessori High School Pathway

Montessori High School Pathway exercises using the bank game. Progression then continues This past Saturday May members of our Montessori using operations with the stamp game. Group four consists of linear counting. Quantity is community attended the Montessori high school presented using the teen and ten boards followed by symbol pathway planning meeting at Waltrip High School! Dr. and association. The one-hundred board and bead chains Cheryl McCosh led the meeting to review the progress develop number concepts and recognition of numbers one that has been made over the last two years to prepare through one-hundred. The bead chains also introduce the for this extension of Montessori learning. Students child to skip counting; five, ten, fifteen, twenty, etc. from our HISD Montessori PK3 – 8th grade campuses Group five contains activities such as strip boards, snake (Wilson and Garden Oaks) will be able to finish with a game, and memorization of facts. Fractions are also a part of Montessori 9th grade – 12th grade public school this group. Fraction skittles and insets serve this purpose. pathway at Waltrip! This pathway will be a very small Providing the child with the materials at precisely the right group in the first year with around 40 students challenge level will enable the child to demonstrate his development to the teacher through his progress. A child expected in the inaugural class. Friends of Montessori that is able to grasp such math concepts as addition and has been instrumental in working to implement this free subtraction demonstrates the successful use of the math program option for our students and is working to write materials. The materials are so beautifully designed and grants and raise money to support this initiative as well appropriate for each child during his sensitive periods of as sustain our public Montessori school options. If you learning math. are interested in volunteering to ensure that public Montessori Moment Montessori survives, see Dr. McCosh or leave your It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who contact information with me to forward. Having public was not made by the child he once was. Montessori available to ALL children is a pressing ---Maria social justice issue as over 90% of Montessori Montessori programs in the United States are private, tuition-only Leader In Me schools. Thank you to all of our families and friends February - Habit 6 Synergy (Teamwork) who support Garden Oaks and the sustainability of our magnet program. Important February Dates Montessori Hands-ON Event 24 Early Dismissal Montessori Hands-on Event 12:45pm – 6pm WEDNESDAY – Early Dismissal! FREE screening of Most Likely to Succeed Come to your child’s class and learn about the Montessori sponsored by FOM! Shows at 8am and 6pm Child lessons your child has been learning. Here is a brief care and pizza provided at the 6pm showing! overview of Montessori math to help you in your discussions with your child(ren) and with the teachers: Learning mathematical concepts in a Montessori classroom begins 26 Pastries with Pollock and Parent Education 8a concretely and progresses towards the abstract. They are 26 Go Texans (rodeo) Day! developed from simple to complex. Process is taught first 27 PTO Family Environmental Science work day 8am and facts come later. Order, coordination, concentration, and – 12 Join us on campus and work together to beautify independence are experienced by the child using these our gardens and pond! We especially need adults to materials. The math activities are organized into five groups. help with the deck repair! Group one introduces sets of one through ten which Remember gates open daily at 7:15am to give you 30 prepares the child for counting and teaches the value of minutes to arrive to school on time! quantity. A child will gain a growing understanding of sequence. Spindle boxes, cards and counters, the short bead stair, and other 1- 10 additional counting activities a teacher may add, reinforce the one through ten numeral concept. Group two involves the decimal system using the golden bead material. The child will become familiar with the names of the decimal categories; units, tens, hundreds, and thousands. A concrete experience with each category is represented by beads. Quantity will be followed by symbol and association. Group three deals with the operations using the golden bead material. The concept and process of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are presented. Children work with each other and benefit from these From the desk of Dr. Lindsey Pollock, Principal February 22 - 26, 2016 Volume 8, Issue 24